Microsoft Sharepoint Products and Technologies Resource Kit eBook

208 Part III: Planning and Deployment
this interface, you can set quotas for alerts per user and for all portal sites. You can
define and adjust the default numbers based on the following items:
■ The number of users
■ How many alerts each user can have
■ How many alert results you want to be returned per alert
You can adjust the defaults based on the number of users and the alerts-peruser
setting to determine the maximum settings for alerts at the site level. For example,
if your company has 20,000 users and you are setting a limit of ten search alerts
per user and 20 other alerts per user, your maximum number of alerts for all portal
sites is as follows:
20,000 x 10 = 200,000 is the maximum number of search alerts for all sites
20,000 x 20 = 400,000 is the maximum number of other alerts for all sites
Because all divisional portal sites consume shared services provided by the
corporate portal site, these are maximum numbers allowed for all divisional portal
sites and the corporate portal site combined. They are not per site.
Planning User Profiles
Note Alerts on portal sites and Windows SharePoint Services team sites
are not consolidated.
User profiles have several uses, including the following ones:
■ Searching for and connecting with people within your organization
■ Generating a My Site in the portal site for individual users
■ Providing better search results
■ Targeting content to audiences
Importing User Profiles
You can import user profile information directly from Active Directory or enter it
manually. You can also customize the properties of the user profile to meet the
needs of your organization or to map it to Active Directory properties.
If you have already invested in an infrastructure based on Active Directory or
any Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)–compliant directory, you can
import user information stored in the directories. With Active Directory, use Import
Profile to import the user information to SharePoint Portal Server. Importing user